Adamu (Assyrian king)

Adamu (Akkadian: ๐’€€๐’•๐’ˆฌ, romanized: A-da-mu) was an early Assyrian king, and listed as the second among the, "seventeen kings who lived in tents" within the Mesopotamian Chronicles.[1][2] The Mesopotamian Chronicles state that Adamu succeeded Tudiya.[3] The Assyriologist Georges Roux stated that Tudiya would have lived c. 2450 BCE โ€” c. 2400 BCE. The earliest known use of the name โ€œAdamโ€ as a genuine name in historicity is Adamu.[4] As in his predecessor's case, virtually nothing is otherwise known about Adamu's reign or him personally; his existence remains unconfirmed archaeologically and uncorroborated by any other source.

Adamu
Monarch of Azuhinum
Reignfl. c. 2400 BCE โ€” c. 2375 BCE
PredecessorTudiya
SuccessorYangi

Geopolitical context

Adamu is succeeded on the Assyrian King List by Yangi and then a further fourteen rulers: Suhlamu, Harharu, Mandaru, Imsu, Harsu, Didanu, Hana, Zuabu, Nuabu, Abazu, Belu, Azarah, Ushpia and Apiashal. Nothing concrete is yet known about these names, although it has been noted that a much later Babylonian tablet listing the ancestral lineage of Hammurabi of Babylon, seems to have copied the same names from Tudiya through Nuabu, though in a heavily corrupted form. The earliest Assyrian kings (such as Adamu), who are recorded as โ€œkings who lived in tentsโ€, had at first been independent semi-nomadic pastoralist rulers, moreover; Assyria was originally an oligarchy rather than a monarchy. These kings had at some point become fully urbanized and founded the city-state of Assur.[5]

The Assyrians and Sumerians had become subject to the Akkadians, centered in central Mesopotamia c. 2400 BC. The Akkadian Empire claimed to encompass the surrounding, โ€œfour corners of the worldโ€. Assyrian rulers had become subject to Sargon of Akkad and his successors, and the city-state of Assur had become a regional administrative center of the Empire, implicated by the Nuzi tablets.[6]

The region of Assyria, north of the seat of the empire in central Mesopotamia, had been known as Azuhinum in Akkadian records.[7] Towards the end of the reign of Sargon the Akkad, the Assyrian faction had rebelled against him; โ€œthe tribes of Assyria of the upper countryโ€”in their turn attacked, but they submitted to his arms, and Sargon settled their habitations, and he smote them grievously.โ€[8]

Preceded by
Tudiya		 Monarch of Azuhinum
fl. c. 2400 BCE โ€” c. 2387 BCE		 Succeeded by
Yangi

See also

References
  1. Glassner, Jean-Jacques (2004). Mesopotamian Chronicles. Society of Biblical Literature. p. 137. ISBN 1589830903.
  2. Meissner, Bruno (1990). Reallexikon der Assyriologie. 6. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 103. ISBN 3110100517.
  3. Roux, Georges (1992). Ancient Iraq. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 9780140125238.
  4. Hamilton, Victor (1995). The Book of Genesis, Chapters 1 - 17. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 9780802825216.
  5. Saggs, The Might, 24.
  6. Malati J. Shendge (1 January 1997). The language of the Harappans: from Akkadian to Sanskrit. Abhinav Publications. p. 46. ISBN 978-81-7017-325-0. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
  7. "Prehistory and Protohistory of the Arabian Peninsula: Bahrain". M. A. Nayeem. 1990. p. 32.
  8. Malati J. Shendge (1 January 1997). The language of the Harappans: from Akkadian to Sanskrit. Abhinav Publications. p. 46. ISBN 978-81-7017-325-0. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
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